TORONTO -- Seven years after Hideo Nomo's debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers, seeing a native of Japan play Major League Baseball is no longer a novelty.
But one who speaks to the media in English? Now that's something different.
Shigetoshi Hasegawa, the newest and least famous of three Japanese imports on the Seattle Mariners, demonstrated his linguistic skills in an interview after last Wednesday's game against the Toronto Blue Jays.